Total Film - Christmas 2021

IF YOU REALLY CARE, THEN EVERYTHING ELSE LOOKS AFTER ITSELF: TARON EGERTON

Since becoming a star overnight with Kingsman, Taron Egerton has proved his range as a song-and-dance man, and showcased serious dramatic chops as well as a crowd-pleasing lightness of touch. With the release of a surprising new Tetris movie, is everything falling into place for the next phase of his career?

KINGDOM COME

THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE Let’s-a go! The video game icon gets a faithful big-screen redo.

GIVING IT LARGE

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS Buckle up. The sequel to the DCEU's kid-in-an-adult-superhero's-body movie is going big...

INFINITY POOL: Island in the sin...

Is this a dream? It would make more sense,’ sighs holidaymaker Em (Cleopatra Coleman) halfway through writer/director Brandon Cronenberg’s third feature. But in reality, the moral dilemma facing her and her novelist husband James (Alexander Skarsgård) is the stuff of nightmares: one that not only shakes their relationship to its very foundations, but gives ‘tourist trap’ a completely new meaning.

INSTRUMENTAL FIGURE

He was a musical prodigy, confidant of France's most infamous queen, and contemporary of Mozart. But his race and revolutionary actions saw his legacy almost entirely wiped from history by the establishment. Total Film meets star Kelvin Harrison Jr. and the film-making team behind Chevalier to discuss their electrifying 'rock star' portrait and all its contemporary resonances.

Grief Encounter

After experiencing personal loss amid a global pandemic, Zach Braff sat down to write a film for Florence Pugh that explored sorrow. The writer/director of A GOOD PERSON and his cast tell Total Film how addiction, music and terrible haircuts fed into a timely indie.

ROCK N ROLE

Model turned actor Suki Waterhouse is channelling her passion for music in hotly anticipated docudrama Daisy Jones  & The Six and her own burgeoning career as a singer. During a rare day off in her multi-US-city tour, Total Film catches up with the star to talk about hitting all the right notes.

THE DICE GUYS

IT'S BEEN AN EPIC QUEST TO GET DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES TO THE BIG SCREEN. TOTAL FILM MEETS THE FILM-MAKERS AND ENSEMBLE CAST HOPING TO ROLL A 20 ON A NEW BLOCKBUSTER CAMPAIGN.

WORK SUCKS

Some jobs are just too hard to walk away from... As Dracula undergoes a revamp, Nicholas Hoult gets himself a new goth superhero and Nicolas Cage finally sinks his teeth into the role he's been waiting his whole life to play. Welcome to the weird, funny, gory world of RENFIELD

CHAOS THEORY

FAST X Jason Momoa's vengeful and explosive new villain has Dom and the Fast family in his sights.